The JV company, Sahara Turner Construction, will build integrated townships called Sahara City Homes and other Sahara India projects in India worth $25 billion over the next 20 years. Projects worth $2.5 billion will be completed over the next five years."The JV will also undertake third party construction projects," said Subrata Roy, chairman and managing director of Sahara India, which will initially invest $100 million and hold 63% in the JV.

Sahara, which does not have any real estate project in Mumbai will soon begin one in suburban Vasai. It also plans to develop its 100-acre plot near Lokhandwala complex in Andheri (west) but Roy declined to share details.

Turner's CEO Nicholas Billotti said that the large land bank that Sahara possesses will be one of the most important assets for the JV.